The Greek mythology goddess of love, beauty and sexual desire, one of the twelve Olympians.
Character relation
Eros, Anteros, Deimos(son)
Tempera:Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Poetry: The Immortal Aphrodite
Artistic Characteristics
full of emotion and delicate.
the poetic style is unique.
Theme: praise love and beauty.
The love that embodies the heat of life.
Statue: Aphrodite of Kinidos by Praxiteles.
Aphrodite of Milos by Alexandros.
One of the three treasures of the Louvre;
The artist cleverly arranged the joint where the topless and the shirt join;
The proportion of sculpture conforms to the "golden section" rule;
Embodies the ideal of classical art harmony and perfection;
Representative sculpture of the Hellenistic period.
Originally, Aphrodite was a fertility goddess who controlled the reproduction of everything in nature, including animals and plants.
Aphrodite was also revered as the patron saint of seafarers
Nicknames
"Aphrodite who gave the wind"
"Aphrodite who calmed the seas"
Aphrodite: The original witch in Beauty and Beast.
Halidom
Animals: Pigeons, sparrows, swans, goats, lynx and dolphins.
Plants: Roses, poppies, pomegranates, myrtle, Quince, clover, and aquatic mint.
At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Iris, the goddess of conflict, threw a golden apple and inscribed it with the inscription "For the most beautiful". Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, the divas at the wedding, all claimed to be the most beautiful. Zeus sent the most handsome man, Prince Paris of Troy, to make a ruling. Three goddesses in order to obtain the golden apple, respectively with authority, honor and beauty promised Paris. Paris finally fell in love with Aphrodite's promise of beauty, so the golden apple was awarded to Aphrodite, and with her help lured away the Spartan king Menelaus's wife, the beauty Helen, which led to the outbreak of the Trojan War.
A common version:That Aphrodite was born as daughter of Uranus from the foam that the phallus of Uranus was thrown into the sea; Legend has it that Cronus cut off the penis of his father Uranus with a sharp sickle and interrupted the sexual encounter between Uranus and Gaia, so he was born. Because he was inelegant with the penis in his hand, Cronus threw it into the sea, and foam white as pearls rose around the penis, and Aphrodite was born
Venus stood in a piece of shell on the sea, naked and beautiful, her long hair flowing in the wind. The gods of the west wind and spring wind sent her dresses and flowers.
This figure of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, is of the most exquisite form, and her smooth skin is of the utmost goodness.
